Word: hurleyism
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...Hurley's antipathy to John Carter Vincent goes back to China. Vincent had been Counselor of Embassy in Chungking under Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss. Then Vincent had taken over State's China desk. In Hurley's view Vincent and Gauss had no confidence in Chiang or in his ability to keep China afloat...
...that, Pat Hurley blew up. He released his statement to newsmen. The statement was a violent but confused attack on a policy which, he said, had let the U.S. be "sucked into a power bloc on the side of colonial imperialism." But his two-by-four whacked hard and specifically on what he called "hydra-headed direction and confusion" in the State Department. Some of the whacks...
...Patrick Hurley's resignation rampage served another purpose. It turned the beam of public interest on the State Department-and on one of its dustier aspects. As many besides Pat Hurley had long known: 1) on many points of foreign relations, particularly with China, the Department is as divided as China itself; 2) the day-to-day direction and implementation of policy is sometimes in the hands of men opposed...
This week Oklahoman Hurley threatened to break more diplomatic crockery and let in more light. Congressional committees vied with each other to get on record "the names, the numbers and the places" where, he said, "we have supported ideologies that are in conflict with the principles for which we asked our people to die on the battlefield...
...General Hurley had named no names, but Washington knew the men he refrained from naming. His main target was quiet John Carter Vincent, head of State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and thus Secretary Byrnes's most influential adviser on China matters. Vincent had been the go-slow opponent of the War and Navy Secretaries in their efforts to frame a stronger policy in support of Chiang Kaishek...